Need a VPN client

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> Tim Frost wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 07:54 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Good Morning Everyone:
> >>
> >>Ubuntu is running along sweet on my laptop, and its time for a
little
> >>bit more improvement.  This time, I need a good vpn client
(preferably
> >>with a gui for setup etc)
> >>
> >>Our vpn here at work is run off a Cisco pix 501 firewall, and is
> >>compatible with the windows VPN client.
> >>
> >>I don't know a lot more about it yet (Im very new to VPN) but my
> >>contractor and I got it set up yesterday, windoze can connect to it,
so
> >>Ubuntu needs to be able to as well.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >There is a package that may be suitable.  It is found in universe:
> >vpnc - Cisco-compatible VPN client
> >
> >And Cisco have a version of their client for Linux.  The installation
of
> >this client requires that a kernel module needs to be compiled.  This
is
> >OK if you are familiar with building kernel modules for Ubuntu, but
is
> >not for a novice.
> >
> >Hope this helps
> >
> >
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Timothy A. Holmes
> >>IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I run VPNC and it works pretty well.  I use it with Pix-501 as
endpoints
> without issue.  The configuration  is not done through a gui though.
> 
> Configuration is a simple file as follows:
> 
> IPSec ID GROUPNAME
> IPSec gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> IPSec secret PRE-SHARE-KEY
> Xauth password PASSWORD
> Xauth username USERNAME
> Domain DOMAIN
> 
>  I don't use Xauth so username, password, and domain are blank for me.
> Replace Groupname with the vpngroup in your pix config.  Replace the
> gateway with the public IP of the pix.  Replace the Pre-Share-Key with
> the group password in your pix config.
> 
> To get it going the command is easy:
> 
> user at hostname:/#vpnc vpn.conf
> 
> Once you're done, a simple vpnc-disconnect drops the tunnel.
> 
> I've been using it for a little while now, and it works well for me.
> 
> Mike K.
> 

[Timothy A. Holmes] 


Mike:

Thanks a ton - that looks exactly like what I am looking for

TIM